Monday, March 2, 2015

Be Thou my Vision...

Procrastination method 501...make some wall art instead of doing schoolwork!
I had the idea almost two months ago. I have a small piece of paper on the wall by my bed that contains the words to the old hymn, Be Thou My Vision. Its just a plain small white piece of paper smashed in with all my colorful photos. I still like it there, plain or not. But, I had an idea, why not create a beautiful photo and overlay it with the words? I could print it large (as an engineer's print most likely) or perhaps smaller and frame it, then put it up on the blank wall across the room. I had a print there, but tired of it, and took it down. Because looking at a bare wall is more exciting...
So to create this, I needed related photos. Photo #1. A photo of the ocean. Now, besides the fact we use our eyes to see the ocean...not really related to the hymn. However, photo #1 gets to be my base image because I pretty much just always want a photo of the ocean on my wall. I miss the ocean. (To bad I live smack dab in the middle of the USA with no oceans close by me.)
Photo #2 needed to be related to the song a little more. I thought maybe looking down onto an open bible would work well. Could. Not. Find. An. Image. So, okay no. Plan B was something related to vision, since Christ is our Vision. Tried an eye. Tried the lighthouse. The eye just didn't quite work...
The lighthouse scene, however, I feel fits very well. It well relates to the first photo (I believe this is always important for double exposures. The stories the two photos tell must relate somehow for the end result to be emotionally connect, and be one beautiful photo.) I really don't know much about double exposures...and that is probably the most un technical thing I've ever decided about photography!
Anyway, to me, these two photos seem to fit together well, and the third element, the words from the first verse of Be Thou My Vision, also fit well enough.
So, here's my new wall art for awhile. Until I get bored of that, and take it down for a bare wall...Does anything I do make sense?